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File system, power and instrumentation: Can Linux close its technical gaps? – LinuxWorld, 06/06/07
As the Linux Foundation plans its first Collaboration Summit for June 13 through 15 at the Google campus, Linux contributors are speaking out about kernel gaps that have no solution readily in sight.
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Xandros CEO doesn’t agree that Linux is patent violator – LinuxWorld, 06/07/07
Xandros CEO Andreas Typaldos said Thursday his company did not agree that its Linux distribution violates any Microsoft patents nor did the software giant ask Xandros to do so as part of the patent cross-licensing deal the two signed Monday.
Microsoft makes LG Electronics latest cross-licensing patent partner – LinuxWorld, 06/06/07
Microsoft inked another cross-licensing patent agreement, this time with LG Electronics, covering the company’s Linux-based embedded devices.
Fedora 7 tips its cap to the community – LinuxWorld, 06/06/07
Fedora 7 was released last week with the ability for users to create custom-built Linux distributions based on the open source version of Red Hat’s commercial Linux operating system.
Slab defragmentation – LinuxWorld, 06/06/07
A new memory defragmentation technique helps clean up pages containing only a few small objects.
Firefox 3.0 may block sites fingered by Google – LinuxWorld, 06/05/07
Mozilla Corp. is considering adding a tool to Firefox 3.0 that would automatically block Web sites thought to harbor malicious downloads, but the company’s security chief refused to spell out details.
Hacking Firefox: The secrets of about:config – LinuxWorld, 06/05/07
Ever since its debut, Firefox has garnered a reputation for being an enormously customizable program, both through its add-on architecture and its internal settings. In fact, many of Firefox’s settings aren’t exposed through the Tools > Options menu; the only way to change them is to edit them manually.
Red Hat to assist open source adoption in Indian state – LinuxWorld, 06/05/07
Red Hat Inc. is to help the communist government of Kerala, in southwestern India, to deploy open-source software in its e-governance and literacy efforts.
LINA brings Linux apps over to Windows, Mac users – LinuxWorld, 06/04/07
Fans of cross-platform computing and the “write-once-run-anywhere” concept of applications and software will want to take a look at Lina. The open source software company plans to debut its eponymous (but note the capitalization) LINA platform this month.
Firefox flaws raise Mozilla security doubts – LinuxWorld, 06/04/07
The Mozilla Foundation said last week it has patched several serious security flaws in the popular Firefox browser, bugs that also affect the SeaMonkey browser and the Thunderbird e-mail application.
Multithreaded programming for multicore architectures with Qt – LinuxWorld, 06/04/07
Programming high-performance applications that take advantage of the latest hardware advances requires that application developers be well versed in both the concepts and specific techniques of multithreaded programming.
TECH ED – Xandros joins Novell in licensing Microsoft IP – LinuxWorld, 06/04/07
Microsoft Corp. has signed another Linux distributor to a patent-licensing and collaboration deal similar to the one it struck with Novell Inc. last year.
IDC: Open source rakes in $1.8 billion – LinuxWorld, 06/04/07
A new IDC study has said that the growth in adoption of stand-alone open source software is accelerating and that the total market will be worth $5.8 billion in 2011.
Google Gears no slam-dunk for Mozilla’s Firefox – LinuxWorld, 06/01/07
Mozilla Corp. is gung-ho on support for offline applications, but it’s not committed to using the just-announced Google Gears technologies in the next Firefox, an executive of the open-source developer said Friday.
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Storage engines, virtualization, revison control, open source economics: Brian Aker, 06/06/07
How do you put a SQL interface on your favorite RESTful web APIs? What are Amazon’s web services doing for web startups and test-driven developers? Is distributed revision control the only way to work for a global software organization? And what are the real-world motivations behind open source contributions–individual and corporate? (Podcast, 21:46)
